Joiner s plane



(No Model.)

s. RAZA'. E. RUST.

JOINERVS PLANE.

Patented Nov. 20, 1883.

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Q Wwf UNITED STATES' PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOS R. RUST AND ARTHUR E. RUST, OF PINE MEADOV, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO SAID SOLON R.' RUST, AND HENRY B. BEACH AND .I OHLT C. BEACH, BOTH OE MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

JolNERs PLANE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,866, dated November 20, 1883.

(No model) To ab? whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, SOLOS R. RUsT and ARTHUR E. RUST, oi' Pine Meadow, county of Litchfield, State of Connecticut, have invented au Improvement in Joiners Planes, of which the following is a specification. This invention relates to an improvement in that class of joiners planes in which the stock is constructed from metal, usually cast 1o iron.

In the more general construct-ion of this class oi' planes the bed to which the planeiron is clamped isA arranged in guides or bearings formed inthe sides of the stock. These i 5 require to be planed with great exactness, and

the bed to be correspondingly fitted.

The object of our invention is to simplify the construction of the plane, so far as the iitting and guiding of the bed are concerned; and

2o it consists in the arrangement of a guiding stud or studs in the stock, midway between its two sides, and on an incline corresponding to the inclined position required for the bed, which stud or studs serve as guides for the support and movement of the bed, and having combined therewith an adjusting-screw arranged in a plane parallel with the said stud or studs, and as incre fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying illust-ration, which forms part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section on line e z,- Fig.

2, a top view; Fig. 3, a transverse section on line :v fr, and Fig. e a transverse section on line y y.

A represents the stock, of the usual forni, provided with a handle, B. C is the bed on. which the iron D rests, and is clamped by means of the cap E, the cap E provided with 4o lugs a near its upper end, which pass under and embrace the bed, as seen in Fig. 3, the set- Screw F serving tobring the point of the cap onto the iron near its edge, and so as to clamp the iron firmly to the bed; but this arrangement of clamping is immaterial to this invention, as the cap may be applied in any of the usual or well`lrnown methods.

In the stock beneath the bed a stud, G, is arranged in a plane parallel with the position required for the bed. This stud is best set by 5o drilling into the stock and setting astud of the required diameter therein, as seen inFig.

l. On the under side of t-he bed is a lug, H, at right angles to the bed, and through which a hole is bored corresponding to the stud G, and so as to pass thereon and move freely toward or from the mouth of the plane, the

'stud serving as a guide for such movement of the bed. This stud, placed centrally, as seen in Fig. 4, permits the bed to rock ironi right to left to adapt itself to the position of the plane-iron. The plane-iron, near the mouth b, takes a bearing on 'the stock, as at d,which gives the proper transverse position for the plane-irons. The bed will therefore adapt itself to this position of the stud. The lug H extends below the pivot and engages with au adjusting-screw, I. This adjustingscrew is threaded to iit a corresponding screw-hole, e, in the stock, and in a plane parallel with the axis of the stud G. This screw isprovided with a collar, f, which engages a slot, l, in the lug H, and so that turning the screw in one direction forces the bed and the iron to :nove downward, and in the opposite direction upward, and whereby the edge of the iron may be set in the proper relation to the face of the plane. The stud G niay be of sufficient length to take a bearing near the two ends of the bed 5 but we prefer to introduce a second stud, L, into the stock below, as seen in Fig. 1, for the support of the bed below; or two studs may be introduced, one parallel with the other and in the saine plane horizontally, which will give two supports for the bed; but in such arrangement-of studs the advantage of the rocking movement is not attained.

The introduction of the diagonal guidinglstuds into the stock beneath the bed is much cheaper than the usual inclined side guides formed upon the inner surface of the sides of the stock.

lVhat we claim as our invention is In a nietal plane, the combination of the stock provided with one or more linclined tiallysueh as'deserbed, for clamping the plane` studs," G, beneath Jalle bed, the bed Constructed iron to the bed, all substantially as described.

with a downwardly-projeating lug, H7 conn SOLON R. RUST. strueted to ride on said stud as a support and ARTHUR E. RUST. 5 guide, a screw arranged in the stock parallel /Vitnesses:

with said stud and in engagement with the GEO. H. RICE, Y bed, the plane-ir0n7 cap7 andmeans, subsan1 EDW. E. KELLOGG. 

